ArticleFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2021
The New Challenge of Sports Nutrition: Accepting Insect Food as Dietary Supplements in Professional Athletes.
Article in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06096389 (Effect of Acheta Domesticus Supplementation on Post-Exercise Muscle Recovery in Recreationally Active Male), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Effect of Acheta Domesticus Supplementation on Post-Exercise Muscle Recovery in Recreationally Active Male
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- Intention to Purchase Foods Based on Insects, Arachnids, and Arthropods, Processed by 3D Printing in Panama Consumers.International journal of food science · 2024Article
- The Potential for the Use of Edible Insects in the Production of Protein Supplements for Athletes.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Consumers' acceptance toward whole and processed mealworms: A cross-country study in Belgium, China, Italy, Mexico, and the US.PloS one · 2023Article
- The Crick-Eatery: A Novel Approach to Evaluate Cricket (Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Interest in Insects as Food and Feed: It Does Not Wane in the Public Domain.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Application of Edible Insects as Novel Protein Sources and Strategies for Improving Their Processing.Food science of animal resources · 2022Review
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThe dietary supplements market is growing, and their use is increasing among professional athletes. Recently, several new protein supplements have been placed in the marketplace, including energy bars enriched with insect flour. Edible insects, which are rich in protein content, have been promoted as the food of the future and athletes could be a reference sample for their continued emphasis on higher protein demand. The present study investigated the potential motivations to accept an energy protein bar with cricket flour, among a group of selected Italian professional athletes. A second aim was also to measure how an information treatment about the benefits of edible insects would have impact on acceptance.
methods61 Italian professional athletes (27 females) completed a structured questionnaire regarding supplements and eating habits, food neophobia, nutrition knowledge, willingness to taste edible insects and the associated factors. A question about sports endorsement was also posed at the end of the survey.
resultsall subjects consumed supplements, generally recommended by medical personnel, even though their general knowledge of nutrition was poor (47.8%). Our main results shown that on a seven-point Likert scale, the protein content (5.74 ± 1.01) and the curiosity about texture (5.24 ± 0.98) were the main drivers to taste the cricket energy bar; whereas the feeling of disgust (5.58 ± 1.08) justified the rejection of tasting insects. In addition, the level of food neophobia increases with age (
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